yeah, make sense of that! i can't!
but anyway, as per an anonymous request, here's some more news:
easy stuff first, here's some movies i've been watching,
"Nobody Knows (Dare mo Shiranai)" by Hirokazu Koreeda, it's a movie based on a true story about a single woman who has to hide the fact that she has 4 children in order to find a place to live. but then she abandons them and leaves her oldest 12 year old son in charge of taking care of the younger three, it's super sad, but a really good movie, exactly my style of story telling and cinematography, i liked it a lot.
Other than that, really haven't watched anything super interesting that i can remember. watched Bright Future (Akarui Mirai) again, good as usual, studied it for the imagination/reality interchange, found some good ideas.
Watched part of The Time Machine (old one) and was just kind of disappointed in how it was going to I didn't finish it.
In other news, script is ALMOST all laid out. I really wish it would have been done by now, but with being busy with other classes and work and crap, it's just not. It's really hard to get into that meditative mind of being able to concentrate on it. But it should be done within days.
Technical explorations will be conducted this week. Testing shooting in low light, and different kinds of audio recording because i really don't like doing it and/or don't know enough about it.
But I have found some good locations, Mimi's actual room will be her character's room in the movie, it works out just right. Also found just some random spots for outdoor locations, photographed a bit. still looking for a good merry-go-round, so let me know.
Although it's kind of a waste of time probably at this point, i've been doing lots of research to try to come up with ideas for a title/character names. like i mentioned about the light-related character names. things like that, looking through books about symbolism, not like symbolism in art and crap like that, but like traditional and ancient symbols.
I think the biggest reason that the script writing is going a bit slow right towards the end of it is because i just want to be real serious about it and make sure it's absolutely as good as i can make it. I mean, as artists we're always coming up with better ideas, but for the time being, i want this work to be the best my current state can produce. So i keep thinking about it and thinking about and thinking about thinking that it's still not quite good enough, that it needs just a bit more, that it needs something. so anyway, i hope that's legitimate, i know it needs to get going, i don't want to be shooting in winter, so...
also on another note, i had a very very nice surprise last night when my friend Keiichi Hashimoto, who chloe and i stayed with in japan, called me on skype! we got to talk and see each other for about an hour and just chat and catch up and practice some jap-english together. it was great, i really miss him. we somewhat jokingly talked of having him come to America and stay with us so we can have a joint photography show together, him and chloe and i. that would be awesome, but we'll see what happens, that would be real expensive for him obviously.
and in my spare time i have made for myself this past week and a half or so (which has been about 4 hours total) i have finally gotten a chance to try Fallout 3, awesome game and I can't wait til winter break when i have time to actually play more. and i also got back into a little old hobby of Gunpla, Gundam modeling. excited about that too, but again, more excited for having more time for it someday in the future.
keep thinking and i think, dakara, i am da ne.
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